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Hopeless Hermit
@hopelesshermit.bsky.social
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Artist living in Niagara region of Ontario • Parent to a teen • Spouse of an educator • #Bookworm • #Geek • #Horror Fan • Cat Enthusiast • #Tarot Collector • List Maker • #Art #Books #Cats #CovidConscious #GenX #NeverVoteConservative
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Yep, well seasoned cast-iron 😏

#WomensHistoryMonth
#quote #book #Oz #LFrankBaum #booksky 💙📚
“Why, we’ve had a revolution, your Majesty - as you ought to know very well,” replied the man; “and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I’m glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.” Hm!” said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. “If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?” “I really do not know,” replied the man, with a deep sigh. “Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.” -L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Drop some TELEVISIONS 📺
Still from The Goonies - Cyndi Lauper singing on an 80s TV screen
March 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Why, Ontario, just WHY?! Time for 2-3 days of disassociating followed by this… ad infinitum…
Get up. Dust off. Yell Fuck. Start again.
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Great video from @hannahthawriter.bsky.social over on TT. Hopefully she doesn’t mind me posting it over here.

#resist
February 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Our family rewatched The Sound of Music this weekend. I'd highly recommend it if you would like a palate cleanser from...well... <gestures wildly around>
February 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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A rainbow selection from my ever expanding collection of banned books.😁 What's your favourite banned book? Put your favourites in the comments!

#ReadBannedBooks #BannedBooks #booksky 💙📚
Rainbow of banned books: "A Wrinkle in Time" - Madeleine L'Engle, "The Inferno" - Dante, "King Lear" - Shakespeare, "Atonement"- Ian McEwan, "The Handmaid's Tale" - Margaret Atwood, "Parable of the Sower" - Octavia Butler, "The Devil in the White City" - Erik Larson, "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess, "Interview with the Vampire" - Anne Rice, "The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien, "Carrie" - Stephen King, "The Neverending Story" - Michael Ende, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" - George Orwell, "The Trial" - Franz Kafka, "Sophie's World" - Jostein Gaarder, "The Scarlet Letter" - Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Giving Tree" - Shel Silverstein, "The Wizard of Oz" - L. Frank Baum, "Frankenstein" - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte, "Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll, "A Prayer for Owen Meany" - John Irving, "A Game of Thrones" - George R. R. Martin, "Beloved" - Toni Morrison, "The Golden Compass" - Philip Pullman, "Dracula" - Bram Stoker, "Outlander" - Diana Gabaldon, "The Lovely Bones" - Alice Sebold, "The Exorcist" - William Peter Blatty, "Angela's Ashes" - Frank McCourt, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert M. Pursig, "The Left Hand of Darkness" - Ursula K. LeGuin
February 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Posted by Kimberly was here (klname) over on TT with the caption:
“Horror is, and has always been, political
because FEAR is political.”

Agree! Horror often has much more to say than you may first think. Lots of my favourites mentioned here
#horror #politics #fear
February 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Waiting (not so patiently) for this to hold true…
Scene from The Mummy (1999) - Evelyn says to Beni: You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance.” Beni: They do? Evelyn: Always.
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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#book #quote #PhilipPullman
#HisDarkMaterials #BookSky 📚💙
"Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you must take me further on. I have a job to do." "Seems to me -" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed." "The Subtle Knife" - Philip Pullman
February 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Tonight’s escapism for my family: Anne of Green Gables plus MUCH Coffee Crisp.
Thank you Canada 🇨🇦 for providing this thoroughly perfect story and snack food. And thank you public library system for having a copy!

#AnneOfGreenGables #OCanada #booksky 💙📚 #publiclibraries
Anne of Green Gables (1985) DVD
February 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Truly missing Senator Paul Wellstone today. We need more like him:

“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

#Minnesota #USpolitics #Wellstone
Green Wellstone button that says: Stand Up Keep Fighting
February 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?
Doctor telling a patient: “Here’s your problem - it looks like you’re paying attention to what’s going on.”
February 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Just came across this in my saved photos. I have no idea where it came from, but felt like a good reminder today.
Collection of photos - Bob Ross (Be kind to yourself), Mr. Rogers (Be kind to others), Steve Irwin (Be kind to animals), David Attenborough (Be kind to Earth), Weird Al Yankovich (Be kind of weird), LaVar Burton (Read a book)
January 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Yep.
Painting of two men sitting on either side of a desk talking. Man 2 is starting right out at the viewer. M1: “How have you been coping with everything?” M2: “With sarcasm mostly…” M1: “Has that been working?” M2: “Yeah it’s been super great.”
January 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Introduce yourself with four comic book characters.

And because it’s not just the characters, but also the art I like, the artists are in the alt text

Oh and yes, the Mighty Thor one is altered slightly. The altered version hangs in my studio and makes me laugh every time I see it!
Catwoman defying gravity, climbing up a very narrow alleyway with bats flying behind her. Artist: Joshua Middleton The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster, tapping Thor Odinson on the chest with Mjolnir and telling him to “Calm thine tits” (original panel says “Calm thyself DOWN”) Artist: Russell Dauterman Wonder Woman looks straight out at the viewer with a fierce stare and her bracelets crossed in front of her Artist: Nicola Scott Very cute little Squirrel Girl and Tippy-Toe hanging out on a tree branch. Artist: Scottie Young
January 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Just sharing some of my art that seemed appropriate today

Don’t let the bastards grind you down!

#HandmaidsTale
#MargaretAtwood
#BookSky
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Watercolour and ink artwork of June from "The Handmaid's Tale" with the words "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" (Don't let the bastards grind you down)
January 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#GeorgeOrwell
#NineteenEightyFour
#dystopian
20 of 20:
1984 - George Orwell
January 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#TrueCrime
#SerialKiller
#JackTheRipper
19 of 20:
“The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper” - Hallie Rubenhold
December 9, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#TrueCrime
#SerialKiller
#WorldsFair
18 of 20:
“The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson
December 9, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#TrueCrime
#SerialKiller
17 of 20:
“The Man From the Train” by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
December 7, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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The part of “A Christmas Carol” that always gets left out of modern adaptations…gee, I wonder why…

I know of a few people that could definitely do with getting visited by some ghosts this holiday season! 👻
💙📚
#booksky
#CharlesDickens
#AChristmasCarol
From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. “Oh, Man! Look here. Look, look, down here!” Exclaimed the Ghost. They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meager, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shriveled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no prevision of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread. Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude. “Spirit! Are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more. “They are Man’s,” said the spirit, looking down upon them, “and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And bide the end!” “Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge. “Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with [Scrooge’s] own words. “Are there no workhouses?”
December 6, 2024 at 8:37 PM